At the age of 78 years, I have seen everyday life change drastically. I was involved in communications throughout most of my military career.

When I retired in 1972, communication frequencies were seemingly about to be totally used up.

Now everyone from ten to ninety-eight have their own personal phone number. In 1958, the United States’ best effort to place an object in orbit was about the size of a grapefruit. Eleven years later, astronauts flew 240,000 miles to the moon, landed and returned to Earth.

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Freedom of Speech is one of the pillars of American freedoms. The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. The first one guarantees five rights, commonly known as Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom to Peacefully Assemble, and Freedom to Petition the Government.

I am writing this letter in response to the July 28 article in the Ruston Daily Leader announcing the plans of Sawgrass Storage to put a high-pressure underground gas storage facility in north Lincoln and west Union parishes.

My family has owned land in the proposed storage area since the mid-1800s when my great-grandfather homesteaded it.

If Sawgrass is successful, it will expropriate our property and, by Court Order, impose an underground gas storage lease on us. This will include the right to construct pipelines and unlimited injection wells on our property — all without our consent.

Oh, let us sing his praises! He who has bankrupted our state. Sing for the one that stripped the majority of our state’s emergency funds to fill “one-time” budget shortfalls. Let us praise him who raided educators, state workers and health care facilities’ pay, retirement and pension, as well as our children’s futures to plug even more holes in his house-of-cards spending- without-taxation idea of governing. Let us shout his name from Ouachita Mount.